ADVISORY/Elected Officials, High Tech Execs and Tech Experts to Gather; Trust in the Internet - Required Technology and Policy Solutions.

News/Assignment Editors

ADVISORY...for Monday (May 21) and Tuesday (May 22)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

Who:     The Global Internet Project (GIP) and the Cross-Industry
         Working Team (XIWT)

What:    Invitation-only, high-level, industry-government dialog
         featuring the nation's public and private sector leadership
         on Internet trust issues

When:    Monday, May 21, and Tuesday, May 22, 2001

Where:   The Hilton Washington Dulles Airport in Herndon, Virginia,
         U.S.A.

Why:     Dialog will focus on Internet reliability, privacy, and
         security challenges and developing viable technology and
         policy solutions

Background

The Global Internet Project (GIP) is an international group of senior executives committed to fostering continued growth of the Internet. GIP members come from leading Internet-centric companies representing the telecommunications, software, hardware, and financial services sectors. Based in Arlington, Virginia, the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) serves as GIP headquarters.

The Reston, Virginia-based Cross-Industry Working Team (XIWT) aims to foster the understanding, development, and application of technologies that cross industry boundaries. By facilitating dialog between key private and public US stakeholders, the XIWT works to develop common approaches to Internet architecture and technology.

GIP and XIWT members are active participants in international private sector-led initiatives to improve the reliability of the Internet and reduce its vulnerability to cyber-attacks or cyber-terrorism. This dialog is the second in a series of GIP-sponsored high-level forums among leaders of the global Internet industry, key policymakers, and technologists. The GIP, WorldCom, and the XIWT are hosting this timely industry-government dialog, and WorldCom, Securify, VeriSign, and Real User are corporate sponsors.

Recently Confirmed Speakers:

--Dr. Taher Elgamal, CEO and President, Securify, Inc.;

--Tara Lemmey, Board Member - TRUSTe, and Founder and CEO, Psoom

Corporation;

--George Samenuk, CEO and President, Network Associates;

--Dr. Erik Oldekop, Vice President, Deutsche Bank AG;

--John Riedel, Vice President, Juniper Networks; and

--Les Seagraves, Vice President and Chief Privacy Officer,

Earthlink.

Previously Confirmed Speakers:

--The Honorable Robert Bennett, U.S. Senator from Utah;

--The Honorable Rick Boucher, U.S. Representative from Virginia;

--Scott Bradner, Senior Technical Consultant, Harvard University

and Co-Director of the IETF Transport Area;

--Dr. Eric Brewer, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Inktomi

Corporation;

--Randy Catoe, Senior Vice President, Internetwork Services,

Conxion Corporation;

--Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf, Senior Vice President, Internet

Architecture and Technology, WorldCom;

--Richard Clarke, U.S. National Coordinator for Security,

Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-Terrorism, National

Security Council;

--John Gage, Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office,

Sun Microsystems;

--Austin Hill, Co-Founder and Executive Vice President,

Zeroknowledge;

--Robert Hinden, Chief Technology Officer, Nokia IPRG;

--Michael Lamb, Chief Privacy Officer, AT&T;

--Commissioner Thomas Leary, U.S. Federal Trade Commission;

--Harris Miller, President, Information Technology Association of

America (ITAA);

--John Patrick, Vice President for Internet Technology, IBM and

Chairman of the Global Internet Project (GIP);

--Harriet Pearson, Chief Privacy Officer, IBM;

--Niel Ransom, Chief Technology Officer, USAlcatel;

--Dr. Andrew Rathmell, Chairman, Information Assurance Advisory

Council, United Kingdom;

--Howard Schmidt, Chief Security Officer, Microsoft and Chairman,

Information Technology Sharing and Analysis Center (IT-ISAC);

--Jack Waters, Group Vice President and Chief Technology Officer,

Level 3 Communications; and

--Ken Watson, Manager, Critical Infrastructure Assurance Group -

Cisco Systems, and President and Chairman, U.S. Partnership for

Critical Infrastructure Security.